Dear Facebook, Dear Google
Dear Facebook, For your front page, you should make the top blue bar and the side bars fixed so that just the newsfeed is scrollable. This would make it so […]
Category Archives: being digital
About cyberspace, games, digital life, Second Life, etc.
Why social media matters for first-generation high school students’ college aspirations
My colleagues and I have just published a paper in Computers and Education [download paper here] about how social media helps first-generation high school students in terms of increasing their college application […]
Amazon uses funny product reviews as Facebook ads
Which comes first, a viral link or a sponsored ad? If you’re a Facebook user, you may have come across links to the 1-Gallon Tuscan Whole Milk and the Hutzler Banana […]
History of Social Television
When I first published my article on Tweeting while watching TV, social television wasn’t exactly a hot trend. Given the delay of academic publishing, I am so thankful I published my […]
Reflection on Meaningful Play 2012
Meaningful Play, a conference for “serious” games that takes place every two years, was hosted at Michigan State University last week. Unfortunately, I was not able to present anything this […]
Google’s new cloud service is not a cloud
I was very pleased when Google changed its Google Docs service to a more generic cloud computing service and named it Google Drive instead of Google Cloud. I never really […]
Gangnam Style (Media) effects
Bandura tried to show how influential media could be by showing how children exposed to a video of a person punching a Bobo doll imitated and even creatively elaborated on aggressive […]
Analyzing political speeches with Twitter
The Atlantic published a graph showing the volume of tweets related to the Democratic convention (w/ speech by Michelle Obama on second night) and how that volume compares with tweets […]
D. Yvette Wohn 